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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 4304463" data-attributes="member: 1211">Tabletop RPGs will never be bigger than videogames. You can always play a videogame, you don't need to arrange a meeting with other people to play a videogame and if you play videogames with your friends, one of the players doesn't have to do a lot of preparation. That much is right. You are right in that statistically, a kid is more likely to get a videogame than a PHB.On the other hand, there are people that want to play tabletop RPGs. When they are introduced to them, they are hooked. A subsector of the ones who want to play TT RPGs want to run games, create worlds and have an ongoing story, no matter how simple. Those people don't want to buy a videogame instead since a videogame doesn't provide that experience.Also, videogames and TT RPGs aren't an either/or- situation. First of all, RPGs are cheap. As hong said, the three core books cost what one console game costs and compared to for example skiing or a night out, it's dirt cheap. My new players are all from a MMORPG-background and they haven't stopped playing WoW because they started with TT RPGs.</blockquote>